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If you want to get picky with words, open source is actually a subset of free software, a rather inconsequential part of it since all GPL licensed software is f
by antt 8y ago
If you want to get picky with words, open source is actually a subset of free software, a rather inconsequential part of it since all GPL licensed software is free software first and foremost.
It started as a way to sell Linux to companies that didn't like Stallman. That you're trying to define away that history to people, such as myself, who were there when it happened and are still deeply ambivalent about the choices made is extremely disingenuous.